Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday that his Meta company, which operates Facebook and Instagram, had abandoned its DEI practices. As part of that move, the company told facilities managers to remove the tampons from the men’s bathrooms.
“That same day at Meta’s offices in Silicon Valley,” The New York Times reported, “Texas and New York, facilities managers were instructed to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms, which the company had provided for nonbinary and transgender employees who use the men’s room and who may have required sanitary pads, two employees said.”
Some people could hardly beleive that this had been the state of things at the social media giant.
The move comes as Zuckerberg has made a sharp, right political pivot in recent months. He had a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago home after which he announced a change to the fact-checking policies at Meta, announced that the content moderation team would be moving to Texas, and said that the era of censorship on both Instagram and Facebook was over.
The Times notes that the process by which these changes have been made is different than status quo for the company. “The entire process was highly unusual,” the Times said. “Meta typically alters policies that govern its apps — which include Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads — by inviting employees, civic leaders and others to weigh in. Any shifts generally take months. But Mr. Zuckerberg turned this latest effort into a closely held six-week sprint, blindsiding even employees on his policy and integrity teams.”
Facebook especially had been a bastion of woke during the Trump years and the Covid era. It was in 2020 that Facebook had implemented a third-party fact-checking program that allowed groups to go through user posts and flag those for removal or suppression that did not align with specific, partisan narratives. Those fact-checkers suppressed and censored user content about the 2020 election, about gender ideology, about climate change, and about Covid lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and vaccine efficacy, among other things. […]
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